- Platform: Windows XP / 2000 / Me
- Media: CD-ROM
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As hard drives increase in size and complexity, their maintenance becomes more important--but also more difficult. Diskeeper 7.0 Workstation keeps defragmentation as simple and transparent as possible, permitting optimal performance for a small investment of time and attention.
Installation is quick and painless, and while the main interface window harkens back to the days of Windows 3.1, it is intuitive and effective. Users who haven't been keeping up with their hard drive maintenance will find the initial defrag slow going, but the option to run it in the background will keep them happy. There is a slight slowdown in performance while Diskeeper is running, but it's rarely noticeable. The operation is surprisingly speedy and yields substantially improved performance, especially for large databases, multimedia, and other disk-space gobblers. Other features, like boot-time defragmentation of important files, are equally easy to use and deliver equally impressive results.
Computer users who know they need to keep their hard drives sleek but don't want to spend a lot of time doing it will find Diskeeper a blessing. --Rob Lightner
Amazon.com Product Description
Diskeeper is an automatic disk defragmenter that configures your defragmentation schedule based on the condition of your disk. It eliminates the need for you to know how often to defragment each of your disk volumes for maximum performance. Diskeeper will take note of fragmentation levels and adjust run-time frequency anywhere from every hour to one week. Diskeeper 7.0 is up to six times faster than earlier versions. It takes minimal system resources to maintain peak performance and runs in the background, unnoticed by end users.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply the best.,
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This review is from: Diskeeper 7.0 Workstation (CD-ROM)
I've been a user of Norton Utility Speedisk longer than some of you have been alive. I manage the IT department of a company that has laptop users that can't be away from their computers long enough for me to defrag them, so I thought I'd try Diskeeper because it defrags in the background.Yes, the initial manual defragmentation is slower than Norton...BUT, it defragmented the drive on my laptop to 0.1% fragmentation, while Norton Speedisk never got below around 3%. Add to that the fact that I didn't have to exit out of any processes running in the background. After doing the initial defragmentation, I set the Diskeeper to "Set it and forget it" and it works in the background. I don't notice any performance loss (running on Windows XP Pro). I'm using an eval copy (available from the company's web site) but I've ordered a 5-pack for my users.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mostly good,
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This review is from: Diskeeper 7.0 Workstation (CD-ROM)
Windows XP's built-in disk defragmenter was barely tolerable when I had three or four gigabytes of stuff on my hard drive. It was completely unbearable when this number grew to 32 GB. The utility would chug away for hours at a time, moving huge blocks of data here and there -- and moving them again the next time I ran it. There was no end to it! Clearly, I needed an alternative.At work, on Windows NT, I've been using Diskeeper ever since Version 4, and have never had any major cause for complaint. So, after checking this page for reviews, I went ahead and ordered Version 7. The installation went very smoothly, and within half an hour I had both my internal C drive and my external FireWire drive, each with 32 GB, completely defragged. Great! Diskeeper also works well on Zip disks, though I probably won't bother to defrag them all the time. By default, Diskeeper's "Set It and Forget It" enables something called "Smart Scheduling", which basically allows Diskeeper to keep the disk reasonably defragmented while I work. This is particularly useful given that I don't leave my home computer up 24x7, so can't just schedule a defrag at 3 a.m. like I do at work. There is a priority form on the Action menu which gives "Set It and Forget It" the lowest priority, meaning that I shouldn't even notice it going, except for an occasional burst of drive activity. At least, that's the way it's supposed to work. I wasn't even fully aware of this feature for the first couple or three weeks -- until one evening I suddenly found myself completely unable to do anything. My computer was basically locked up while the drive churned furiously, for five, ten, twenty minutes! In the distance thunder rumbled ominously. While I have both a UPS and a surge protector, I prefer to have my machine turned off in a storm. Trying to abort Diskeeper probably wouldn't be too swift. Who knows what might get corrupted? Finish, already! Well, eventually it did, and I went in and disabled the "Smart Scheduling" for each drive. As a result manual defrags now take somewhat longer than before, but still no more than five or ten minutes. Since I'm doing it when it's convenient for me, and I've long been in the habit of doing it manually at home at least once a week, I have no real complaints. I suppose I could go out to Executive Software's web site and look for a program update, but don't really see the need. Another plus: I found Diskeeper's help pages to be very informative and clearly written. Among other things I learned that I no longer need to do those potentially risky boot-time directory consolidations, because Windows XP allows on-line directory defragmentation. While I've never had a problem with boot-time operations under previous versions of Diskeeper at work, the help pages do suggest backing up important data first. If my home computer crashes, I can't turn to the help desk to fix it. So it's good I can leave well enough alone. All in all, Diskeeper 7 is plenty good enough for my needs, and well worth the money.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Automated defragmentation, set it and forget it!,
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This review is from: Diskeeper 7.0 Workstation (CD-ROM)
Never deal with a fragmented hard drive again! This software is excellent in keeping your hard drive(s) defragmented with no intervention. Just set it and forget it! You can schedule the degragmenting to occur automatically based on fragmentation or set to run at a specific time or run it manually. Also runs in Windows XP. In fact Windows XP comes with scaled down version of this product!
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